The aftermath of a battle

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Dear EB historians,

having regarded "the aftermath of battle" by Nate among the EB loading screens, I came to think of what was the aftermath like in EB timeframe? Were the victors running over the battlefield killing the wounded enemies, depriving them of their properties? Did anybody take care of the wounded? How was that organized, I have heard that the Romans for example had doctors with the legions, what about other factions? I'd like to know because in the game we never actually take care of the wounded of course, the battle ends when the enemy is dead.

[Boyar Son]

There is an acillary called "chichirgeon" (SP??) and all your wounded comes back. Not everyone dies in the game.

[Cybvep]

I'm no historian, but some things just seem logical. Battle equipment was too expensive to waste on dead enemy bodies - it's certain that the dead were robbed. I would also be surprised if the local bandits didn't try to steal some things - after all, the battlefield is very large and at the end of the battle one side is chasing the another - it's a one big, chaotic mess... Well, the wounded most likely were screwed, as the medicine wasn't really advanced in the Antiquity and besides, even "friends" from their own army would like to take some of their equipment - life is brutal. IIRC, more advanced medical treatment after the battle was nonexistent until Napoleonic times.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Romans had one of the best field medical personnel before 19th century .. before romans and after them the wounded would most likely to die after the battle few days/weeks later ..
in the napoleonic times the things weren't any better ..
it was Crimean war when things started to change ...
as war as i can remember

[iwwtf_az]

i was under the impression romans did not study medicine as much as other peoples. what sort of medical procedures did they practice?

[Gaivs]

Roman medicinal equipment, or equivalant standard, was used up until late medieval period. Aka, it didnt improve for centuries, it just sort of levelled off.

[antisocialmunky]

I'm not sure but I don't think Rome had any sort of progressively advancing understanding of medicine just a few bright bulbs that figured out alot of things within their lifetime and passed their knowledge on in text rather than training a bunch of people to think like them and figure out more stuff. The first century Galen comes to mind.

I think that there's good evidence for cosmetic surgery(text), eye surgery(tools), traction beds for broken bones(text), hospitals with segregated wings for different illnesses, and the much over-hyped drilling holes in your skull to relieve stress(evidence of individuals surviving long after surgery).

[Rodion Romanovich]

i was under the impression romans did not study medicine as much as other peoples. what sort of medical procedures did they practice?

The romans employed mostly Greek doctors as combat medics as far as I can remember.

[Senatus Populusque Romanus]

My friends' brother, who is history major told me once that in ancient battles, victorious armies would take all the equipment from the defeated enemies and stabbed their dead bodies again.

I guess, the equipment is exepensive so they would rob enemy bodies for war equipment.

[Megas Methuselah]

I remember reading a history book from the library on Anglo-Saxons(out of EB's timeframe) that said the chainmail armor that was used in the dark ages was able to defend against cuts and slashes, but wasn't quite as good at absorbing the impact of a blow, which could result in bruises and broken bones.

Anyways, it said that this armor was helpful in that way, because while cuts and open wounds were things that had high mortality rates, the Anglo-Saxons were somewhat good at mending broken bones.

[antisocialmunky]

My friends' brother, who is history major told me once that in ancient battles, victorious armies would take all the equipment from the defeated enemies and stabbed their dead bodies again.

I guess, the equipment is exepensive so they would rob enemy bodies for war equipment.

The Rhodians got enough bronze from the heliopolis and the Maks to build a giant friggin statue.

[pezhetairoi]

Fair enough, but the good chainmail armour was iron. XD

[russia almighty]

I thought it was considered common knowledge that after battles the winning side tended to strip the dead of anything useful .


I wonder how many romans came back from Macedon with a Sarissa , lino thorax and stuff like that as booty .

[antisocialmunky]

In Europe during the late middle ages up until more recent times, people would go out onto the battlefield, chop off the gentals of the dead, desicate them, and ground them up to sell as fertility powder to aristocrats.

Same thing happened to Tut's bits apparently during WWII.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle398218.ece